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The encyclopedia of Suda, a massive 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia, had 30,000 entries, many drawing from ancient sources that have since been lost, and often derived from medieval Christian compilers. The text was arranged alphabetically with some slight deviations from common vowel order and place in the Greek alphabet.
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Throughout history, the Britannica has had two aims: to be an excellent reference book, and to provide educational material. [11] In 1974, the 15th edition adopted a third goal: to systematize all human knowledge. [12] The history of the Britannica can be divided into five eras, punctuated by changes in management, or reorganization of the ...
Advertisement for Encyclopædia Britannica, 1913. The Encyclopædia Britannica has been published continuously since 1768, appearing in fifteen official editions. Several editions have been amended with multi-volume "supplements" (third, fifth/sixth), consisted of previous editions with added supplements (10th, and 12th/13th) or gone drastic re-organizations (15th).
Britannica acquired Merriam-Webster in 1964 and Compton's Encyclopedia as well in the early 1960s. [2] [3] Benton died in 1973, before the fifteenth edition was published in 1974. The newly titled Britannica 3 was composed of a ten-volume Micropædia, a 19-volume Macropædia and a one-volume guide to the encyclopædia's use, called Propædia.
Encyclopædia Britannica (fourth edition, 1810; ninth edition by 1889) Edinburgh Encyclopædia (1808–1830) British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1809) Encyclopædia Edinensis (1816) Pantologia (1813) Encyclopædia Metropolitana (1822–1845) Penny Cyclopaedia (1833–1846) English Cyclopaedia (1854–1862, supp. 1869–1873)
10 Eventful Years is the title of the 1947 Encyclopædia Britannica compilation, spanning ten years, 1937 through 1946. The books were commissioned and edited by Walter Yust, the editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica and were partly based on the Encyclopedia's annual Year Book.
An easier resource for terms at the beginning of the alphabet involves going to PGDP, choosing a volume, going to the volume's "project comments", then choosing "Images, Pages Proofread, & Differences". Click on the various text links in the rightmost column (all labelled by file size), and find the term you're looking for.